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Posted on 09/09/2004 4:42:30 PM PDT by dep
In any case, this should generate a couple weeks of fun, kinda like that whole nyt/jayson blair thing. Kerry's boat takes another torpedo.
LOL!! How true!
I worked at IBM Federal Systems Division in 1972. As a new employee, I started my training on the IBM Executive Proportional Typewriter.
However, state-of-the-art at the time was the IBM Selectric Magnetic Card Typewriter which recorded keystrokes on magnetic media roughly the size and shape of data processing cards. Once a document was proofed, those puppies would run off a final copy at 150 words at minute. It created quite a racket in a word processing center with 20 magnetic typewriters and tape machines. Cubicles lined with carpet did little to absorb the noise.
So far I've seen four document experts willing to put their names to "Fake". The number standing by "authentic": less than one actually.
Thanks for the info on the Drudge site. As of this time the 60Minutes logo is still upside down, love it.
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LOL... you're everywhere... :-)
Victim? Likely participant at worst, willingly fooled out of blind rage against Bush, at best.
I find it interesting that even the Weekly Standard describes this as, "It looks like CBS may have been the victim of a hoax"...
And not one person describes it as "It looks like George W. Bush may have been the victim of a hoax".
Qwinn
Especially the punctuation marks and most especially the period, which sometimes punches a hole right through the paper. I have a very old Underwood portable I sometimes use and from time to time I have to adjust it for this and other reasons.
Also, as the typewriter ribbon gets worn, the print tone lightens, especially for those passages typed when the ribbon is near the end.
There are lots of other peculiarities too. For instance, in an old typewriter like mine, the metal characters wear down with age and do so unevenly. This changes their appearance in ways not casually apparent but which become obvious under close inspection.
Spread the word!
IMO, the Weekly knows very well that CBS is no victim here. I think they're suggesting by indirection a way out for CBS, namely, to admit they're fools rather than admit they're liars.
IIRC, Buckhead's post was the first to suggest that the documents were forgeries, then Howlin posted a separate thread about the documents, which helped to get the ball rolling. And lots of freepers chimed in with good analyses. What I think is the coolest is how there's nothing that the document experts pointed out, that hadn't already been pointed out by at least one freeper!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210516/posts?page=107#107
And you are right -- I've caught myself posting to people this very day "we did that last night".........LOL.
Frankly, I'm surprised it got this big this soon, aren't you?
Nightline is covering it.
I was going to write a note to Instapundit last night, and pointing him to the thread and commentary. Then my email crashed and I decided to just go to bed and write something up in the morning. When I got up, I looked at Drudge and was thrilled to see that this story had gotten traction, thanks to freepers' work (the Powerline blog started running with the story after being alerted to our comments.) Now Nightline's covering it? Very cool!
If the documents that CBS broadcast to the world are proven to be forged, John Kerry himself ought to call for the firing of Dan Rather.
Hitlery's operatives created the forgeries (or bought them) and got them to Dan Rathernot to skewer any chance of F'n winning this thing.
Victory in this case justly has a thousand fathers. Tanker KC first pegged them as fakes by the overall look, and I later noted the font issue. Many other defects have been noted by others. I haven't gotten any work done, but it's been a ton of fun. The most amazing thing is how this thing has exploded across the internet.
Mwuhahahahaha!!!
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